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Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793)

Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): 2014. male (Kwa Zulu Natal, Karkloof). (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): 2014. male (Kwa Zulu Natal, Karkloof). (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): 2014. male (Kwa Zulu Natal, Karkloof). (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): 2014. male (Kwa Zulu Natal, Karkloof). (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): 2014. male (Kwa Zulu Natal, Karkloof). (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): 2014. subadult male (Kwa Zulu Natal, Karkloof). (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): 2014. male (Kwa Zulu Natal, Karkloof). (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): male, lateral view. (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): lateral view. (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): dorsal view. (Otu).
Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793): Pl. III, 21. pronotum of female, lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (15)

  • Gryllus leprosus Fabricius, 1793: 51.

    Neotype; male; aa68d134-2dfc-4e87-9490-3c389b1b6077; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa: Mpumalanga: Lyndenbury

  • Phymateus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793) in Bolívar, 1884: 463.
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  • Phymateus (Maphyteus) leprosus (Fabricius, 1793) in Kevan, 1977: 243.
  • Phymateus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793) in Motara & Hawkes, 1985

Nomenclature references (15)

  • Bolívar, I. (1884) Monografía de los pirgomorfinos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 13, 1–73, 418–500. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54702#page/9/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1903) El género "Phymateus" Thunberg. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 3, 188–192. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28616#page/194/mode/1up
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  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). IV. Taphronotinae. V. Phymateinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 393–418. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/417/mode/1up
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) Orthoptera Acridoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 121–272.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Fabricius, J.C. (1793) Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae, 2.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1962) Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) collected in Africa by E. S. Ross and R. E. Leech, 1957-1958, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 31, 227–248. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53423#page/239/mode/1up
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1963) Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) in the collection of C. P. Thunberg, Uppsala, with notes on type material of the species represented. Arkiv för Zoologi, 16(4), 69–96.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Motara, M.A. & Hawkes, P.G. (1985) Meiosis in the Eastern Cape grasshopper Phymateus leprosus (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorhphidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 217–221. Available at http://journals.co.za/content/JESSA/48/2/AJA00128789_2800
  • Sherborn, C.D. (1927) Index Animalium, 2(14). Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/IndexAnimalium/volumes/PageTurner.cfm?id=sil34_02_14

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